The two players appeared together at a news conference within minutes of Arnaldi’s withdrawal being announced.<\/p>\n
In order to avoid Cobolli getting ill, the pair cautiously sat at opposite ends of the interview table.<\/p>\n
Arnaldi described how he became ill on Thursday night, waking up with stomach ache at about 1am.<\/p>\n
He said he began vomiting and was unable to sleep before calling a doctor to his room in the morning.<\/p>\n
“It’s difficult to be here – this is not want I wanted to do,” Arnaldi said.<\/p>\n
“I hoped it was something from dinner but throughout the day I couldn’t eat or drink and kept going to the bathroom.<\/p>\n
“Withdrawing from a first Grand Slam semi-final is not what you wish to anybody.”<\/p>\n
Arnaldi had spent 19 hours and 42 minutes on court en route to the semi-finals in Paris – the longest anyone has played on their way to the last four of a major since 1991.<\/p>\n
Arnaldi apologised to the 15,000 fans, with the majority having already arrived at Roland Garros for the match.<\/p>\n
Ticket-holders will receive a full refund, French Open organisers said.<\/p>\n
“I feel sorry for everyone who came to watch,” added Arnaldi.<\/p>\n
In place of the cancelled match, Cobolli held a practice session on Court Philippe Chatrier in front of thousands of fans who remained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two players appeared together at a news conference within minutes of Arnaldi’s withdrawal being announced. In order…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-686484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}